This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the...

'Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading...

An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded...

In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a...

Arguing that 'education is freedom', Paulo Freire's radical international classic contends that traditional teaching styles keep...

In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End...

'No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by...

The new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh...

New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea.

Some of Jean Rhys's...

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This...

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This...

In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine...

Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life...

These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of...

A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces.

'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion ......

It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoys a life of parties and pleasure. Then war breaks out and his...

Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed...

In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol set out to turn the novel into pop art. a, the first book he wrote, is the result. Transcribed...

'God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody's appendage? ... when will I...

In 1613 the missionary Father Pedro Velasco's dream comes true. For the first time, the Japanese are going to cross the Pacific...

A plague is spreading across 1920s America, racing from New Orleans to New York. It's an epidemic of free expression, carried by...

Also known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins's London Belongs to Me is a Dickensian romp through working-class London on the eve...

A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's...

Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection...

A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to...

'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love'

Fifty-one years, nine...

In Over to You, ten terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot are told by the master of the short story, Roald...

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie

Abandoning the...

A deliciously funny and moving comedy-of-manners about a Chinese father and son's experiences at the height of London's Jazz...

A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued...